Six types of Social Media
Social Networks – These are sites that allows you to connect with other people with the same interests or background. Once the user creates his/her account, he/she can set up a profile, add people, share content, etc
Example: Facebook and Google+
Bookmarking Sites – Sites that allow you to store and manage links to various website and resources. Most of the sites allow you to create a tag to others.
Example: Pinterest
Social News – Sites that allow users to post their own news items or links to other news sources. The users can also comment on the post and comments may also be rank.
Example: Reddit and Digg
Media Sharing – sites that allow you to upload and share media content like images, music and video.
Example: Flickr, YouTube and Instagram
Microblogging – focus on short updates from the user. Those that subscribed to the user will be able to receive these updates.
Example: Twitter and Plurk, Tiktok
Blogs and Forums – allow user to post their content. Other users are able to comment on the said topic.
Example: Blogger, WordPress and Tumblr
